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• Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Love, Fire, Iron

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: (to II Corinthians, Chapter V)”

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• If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Knowing, Done

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.30

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• He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Doe, Needs, Dread

  Alexander Maclaren (1905). “Triumphant Certainties: And Other Sermons”

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• Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Death, Doors, House

  Alexander MacLaren, Charles H. Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, T. DeWitt Talmage, Canon Liddon (2015). “The Resurrection: A Symposium”, p.9, Gideon House Books

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• You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Giving, Doubt, Shadow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 599), 1895.

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• God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Christian, Spring

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• If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy child," go to God's throne, and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought be, "My Father in heaven;" and that will brighten, that will establish, that will make omnipotent in your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the child of God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Lying, Father

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 17), 1895.

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• Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Mean, Blessing

  Alexander Maclaren (1908). “The Book of Esther”

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• As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Heart, Agony

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid; "it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Wise, Effort, Madness

  Alexander Maclaren (1877). “Week-day evening addresses, delivered in Manchester”

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• That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Self, Complacency

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• Don't waste your sorrows

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sorrow, Waste

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• Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Kindness, Daily Life

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Giving, Void

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Father, Long

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.308

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• Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Religious, Knowledge, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 365), 1895.

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• Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Life, Passion, Soul

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heaven, Holiness, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 228), 1895.

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• We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Shining, May

  Matthew Henry, George Whitefield, Alexander MacLaren (2001). “Classic Sermon Outlines”, p.237, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Brother, Taken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 109), 1895.

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• Love is the foundation of all obedience.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Love Is, Foundation, Obedience

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Sea, Giving

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.140

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• The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Roots, Fidelity, Consecration

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Calm Mind, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 589), 1895.

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• It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Teacher, Kings, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 78), 1895.

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